By The Raleigh Telegram
RALEIGH – According to the Wake County Sheriff’s Office, two men are in jail after a Wake County Sheriff’s Deputy allegedly found 22 pounds of cocaine in their car.
Phyllis Stevens of the Wake County Sheriff’s Office said that Elder Camacho and Angel Peralta were arrested on Friday in Raleigh. Both men are from Dalton, Georgia. The pair were each charged with felony drug possession although Camacho was additionally charged with maintaining a dwelling or vehicle for the storage of a controlled substance, also a felony.
Stevens said that the men were initially pulled over due to a simple traffic violation and that the deputy found the drugs in Camacho’s 2004 BMW 545i.
“It was a regular traffic stop,” Stevens told The Raleigh Telegram in a phone interview.
According to Stevens, the traffic stop took place near the intersection of Rock Quarry Road and Sanderford Road just outside of Raleigh.
Stevens said that a drug seizure of that size is not unusual. However, such busts are usually made when larger vehicles such as trucks or buses are used. For example, in 2007, a Wake County deputy once found 70 pounds of cocaine inside the tires of a large Greyhound style bus that was driving through the Zebulon.
According to Stevens, as of first appearances on Monday at 2pm, the men were still in the Wake County Jail on $1 million bond. ::
Posted on Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
